Bi-weekly PRRAC Email Update

Housing Choice Voucher Concentration in the 50 largest metro areas: This newly released report, by Alicia Mazzara, Research Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Brian Knudsen, Senior Research Associate at PRRAC,  analyzes HCV concentration in metropolitan areas both in absolute terms, and in relation to the distribution of affordable rental units … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (January 3, 2019): New analysis of housing choice voucher concentration

Webinar on SOI discrimination:  We are pleased to participate in this December 19 webinar sponsored by the American Bar Association, entitled "Your Money's No Good Here: Source of Income Discrimination in Housing."  1:00-3:00 pm, register here. Facing Segregation: Housing Policy Solutions for a Stronger Society:  We're not saying that this is the best and most definitive … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (December 13, 2018): SOI discrimination & final 2018 fair housing anniversary reading assignment!

Strategies for Health Justice - Lessons from the Field: PRRAC's latest environmental justice report profiles community-based advocacy and innovation in NYC, California, Indiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, and across the U.S. More housing mobility stories: Our latest video profiles housing mobility counselors and clients at the successful Richmond, VA housing mobility program, … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 29, 2018): Health justice – lessons from the field

Developing housing-schools connections:  PRRAC has released its latest publication on the housing-schools intersection, Coordination of Community Systems and Institutions to Promote Housing and School Integration, highlighting a range of examples of public and private cross-sector efforts to ameliorate racial and economic segregation.  We also recently presented at … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (November 16, 2018): Housing-schools connections

Responses to the AFFH Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking:  We responded in detail to HUD’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, emphasizing the central importance of the Fair Housing Act’s pro-integration mandate.  See our letter, along with selected comments from other housing and civil rights groups here. Last week’s 7th … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (October 25, 2018): AFFH ANPR, housing mobility, and civil rights history